Launching Your Business Architecture Practice

This course focuses on the skills and competencies needed to perform business architecture; "being" a Business Architect. Using business architecture tools, we’ll develop the business model, strategy, organization design for our practice back in our organizations. Strategy will be formed from business capability assessment, measurement, and performance. We’ll discuss approaches, techniques and skill to enable you to successfully launch your business architecture initiatives.

Course Outline:

Use business models and business modeling to set strategy for business architecture launch

Understand some of the skills necessary to be successful in the role of business architect

Apply strategy to execution alignment using business modeling

Demonstrate immediate planning and leading value with Business Architecture

Develop your “leadership metaphor”

Extract and drive additional detail into elements of the launch plan

Understand engagement models and begin to design one for your business

Examine your own perspective and readiness to “be” a business architect

Clearly articulate the things that the business will employ to achieve the desired outcome (rigor, engagement, etc.)

Unique Value of Course:

More and more organizations are discovering business architecture as a key to their business success. This course enables you to understand key aspects of the role, and how to understand and apply your talents within your organization to make yourself and your business successful.

Objectives:

Understand the role of the Business Architect

Learn and practice consultative skills required for success

Learn concepts as well as hands on facilitation using a business model canvas

Emphasize Business Architecture practices and techniques from a true business value perspective

Combine theoretical and practical information for both Business Architecture execution and practice development

Focus on application of Business Architecture to achieve observable results

Reflect best practices being executed by some of the top organizations in the nation